Quebec opened its doors to the first Costco Business centre in September 2020.
This store replaces the regular Costco in St Hubert, and has undergone certain modifications to accomodate a larger walk-in fridge and repositioning of aisles.
If you are familiar with Costco then you already know they sell all kinds of things in bulk, but this Business centre really focuses on goods for the restaurant industry, hotels or offices. You will find lots of fancy industrial kitchen equipement, a whole range of supplies for cooking, baking, packaging, you name it. If you've ever wanted an industrial mixer, pizza oven, or triple door fridges and freezers, you'll find it here.
There is a wider selection of products when it comes to food, more brands are stocked and larger sizes. A regular Costco may only carry a dozen or less varieties of soda and juice for example, but this place will offer easily 50 types of beverages.
The most impressive feature is the giant walk in fridge, it is significantly bigger than the usual walk-ins and stocks every type of meat, veggie and dairy product. Make sure you bring a sweater year round to enter this area as it can take a while to go through all the options and you will freeze!
Not everything is a great deal, always look at the price of items per weight. If you shop at regular grocery stores, there are often better bargains but I guess if you have a restaurant, it's easier to buy everything in bulk in one place.
We love to BBQ and found the price of pork shoulder, ribs, brisket and other large cuts of meat to be a steal. But certain things like eggs, cheese and butter were the same, or more expensive as other places and there is no point in buying a 5kilo brick if you can't finish it.
If you like spices, they regularly go on sale, you'll have to buy a very large cannister, but we compared the prices to everywhere else and basics like pepper, garlic, powder, paprika, thyme, etc were very cheap.
Note that this Costco is open to every Costco member, you do not need a business membership.
This Costco does NOT have an optical center nor pharmacy, no food court, no bakery and no butcher on site. They also do not sell any clothes, toys or electronics.
They open very early (7am) and tend to close earlier too (7pm) so be sure to check before going. read more